LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 28 th May, 2014 Abul Khair Joyte Senior Lecturer, Marketing department, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Basundhara, Dhaka. Subject: Letter of Transmittal for the LFE Report, SPRING LFE 2013. Dear Sir, With most pleasure, I am Moonazzah Sayeda Naz from group 30, would like to present this LFE report on the study conducted during 25 th April to 5 th May, 2013 for the course Live in Field Experience (LFE) on Teghorbisha village at joypurhat, with village people. Through questionnaire survey, and observation I have tried my best to learn about the geography, changes of social condition, economy and agriculture, the impact of seasonality of various aspects of women empowerment, agriculture, health and environment, and rural market analysis of the village. This was an immense experience for me and I have learnt a lot about the culture, beliefs and norms of the village scenario. I highly appreciate and acknowledge this overall effort of IUB for arranging this sort of course. If any sort of clarification Page 1 of 25
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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
28th May, 2014
Abul Khair Joyte
Senior Lecturer,
Marketing department,
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)
Basundhara, Dhaka.
Subject: Letter of Transmittal for the LFE Report, SPRING LFE 2013.
Dear Sir,
With most pleasure, I am Moonazzah Sayeda Naz from group 30, would like to present this LFE
report on the study conducted during 25th April to 5th May, 2013 for the course Live in Field
Experience (LFE) on Teghorbisha village at joypurhat, with village people.
Through questionnaire survey, and observation I have tried my best to learn about the geography,
changes of social condition, economy and agriculture, the impact of seasonality of various
aspects of women empowerment, agriculture, health and environment, and rural market analysis
of the village. This was an immense experience for me and I have learnt a lot about the culture,
beliefs and norms of the village scenario.
I highly appreciate and acknowledge this overall effort of IUB for arranging this sort of course.
If any sort of clarification is required regarding the report, we will be pleased to meet any
queries.
Sincerely yours,
Moonazzah Sayeda Naz
ID: 1120516
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Abstract
Bangladesh is a country of vast population. It is being tough to provide a similar facility to all the
people in it. So a sheer size people of the total population are being urbanized now, in search of a
better life. However, a score of people are still found at the rural area of the country. So we have
no option to ignore them, when we want to represent the real demographic, social, cultural,
educational, and economic feature of the whole country.
Our education cannot be completed without having a proper knowledge on the entire status of
our nation. Therefore it is very important to be familiarized with the rural and urban area and the
differences between the life style of the people. Without having gone through them, it is not
possible to get a practical knowledge on the problem faced only by the village people and the
necessity to solve the problem. Seeing the village by going through the book cannot give us the
clear picture of the village, but seeing with our own eyes by keeping in touch with the village
and villagers can give us the real picture. Keeping it mind, Live Field Experience (LFE) 201 had
been made one of the foundation courses offered by Independent University Bangladesh (IUB).
This is the only course, where students can achieve an experience on fieldwork and get an
opportunity to amplify their adaptability.
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1. Introduction
The course “LFE 201” has been subjected by me in summer 2014. We, about 64 students from
section 3 left for Joypurhat district in order to make the course successful. Joupurhat stands
under Rajshahi division. It has an large area, where about four villages are found. Historical
places like “Behular bashor ghor”, “paharpur boydhho behar”, etc are close to the district area. I
would like consider myself lucky, to have a chance to visit such an enriched area of Bangladesh.
We, the registered students of the course along with 4 monitors and 3 experienced faculties
started our journey at 25th April. After spending 10 memorable days together, we came back at 5th
May. A renowned NGO of Bangladesh named TMSS (Thengamara Sabuj Sangha), working for
women empowerment did all our living and food arrangement. In spite of being busy, all the
stuffs of the NGO provided us a very warm welcome. All of them were very cooperative and
they helped us a lot to curry on our program effectively. Therefore, we are very thankful to them.
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2. Map Analysis We run our surveys at three different villages of joypurhat named Teghorbisha, Halottri and
Shyampur. We went through the villages in person to gain knowledge about the socio-economic
condition, mindset and the lifestyle of the villagers. We have accumulated information about
village mapping and village transect, social changing process and timeline analysis, wealth
ranking and resource mapping, seasonality mapping, household and gender role and the rural
market analysis through the systematic field study.
Teghorbisha was the village where I made my survey. The village is one of the oldest villages of
Joypurhat district. Therefore, it was tough to find out the history of the village but after a long
effort, we came to know that the village was named by the famous poet, Rabindranath Thagore.
It is said that the proprietors of area was impressed by the poetry of Rabindranath Thagore. So
they arranged a program named “teghor mela” on the honor of Rabindranath Thagore, where a
special Puja was performed. Gradually the puja and the mela became quite popular. Then by the
name of the mela, the village was named as Teghorbisha.
Figure : A map, presenting the village Teghorbisha.
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Teghorbisha is the largest village of the district having around 1000 people in an outsized area.
Around 15 different “Para”s (the areas under a village are called Para) covered the village named